Recycling

2030 legacy vision includes plans to cut waste and emissions from the area due to be transformed after 2012 games

Car giant announces process for extracting and recycling 17 rare chemical elements from old auto parts

Company unveils new three year plan to slash water and energy use, waste to landfill, and business travel

Space agency begins search for "game changing" ideas to tackle extraterrestrial and earth-bound waste

Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson urges confectioners to set a good egg-sample to help cut plastic packaging waste

New Eco range will contain 90 per cent recycled fibre and 10 per cent bamboo

Customers will receive £10 gift voucher for returning unwanted old shoes between now and 8 April

Waste companies welcome higher ambition, but warn greater investment in reprocessing is needed to achieve new goals

Nestlé becomes first major confectioner to use 100 per cent recyclable packaging around its Easter eggs